Raven Young

“Running across the tops of the trees, she turned her eye to the blue and green sliver of Earth. She peered down through the long gulf until she found the little girl staring back up at her, a flag of life in the blowing wheat.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“To make a better future than the past. To learn from our mistakes. To accept that we’ve failed, and will fail again, but won’t dig a hole and crawl into it. We’ll take a step in a different direction, then another and another, until we’re closer to our destination than we were before.”
― David Estes, Stormsworn

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The thought crawled out of the wet black loam of her brain like some horrid new insect. It scrabbled unchecked through her mind, eating everything clean and good in her, laying clutches of wet, mucousy eggs in its stead.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider